Subject: Bir NT2000 Meydan Okuma hikayesi
From: Mustafa Akgul (akgul@Bilkent.EDU.TR)
Date: Thu 05 Aug 1999 - 13:28:35 EET DST
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This story was printed from ZDNN,
located at http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn.
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Microsoft to hackers: Crack this!
By David Raikow, Sm@rt Reseller
August 4, 1999 3:24 PM PT
URL:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2309474,00.html?chkpt=hpqs014
In an attempt to burnish its tarnished reputation for network security,
Microsoft issued an open challenge on Tuesday to the hacking community. But
potential testers barely got a chance to attempt to break Windows 2000's
security system, as the test server Microsoft offered crashed, then
remained down for most of the past 24 hours.
Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) placed a Web server running the latest beta of
Windows 2000 and Internet Information Server (IIS) outside its firewalls,
and invited the public to go after target files and user accounts it placed
there.
The company's reason for doing so? "We hope that this kind of open testing
will allow us to ship our most secure OS yet," said a Microsoft
spokesperson.
Lukewarm response
The hacking community was and is largely unimpressed, however. In its
posted coverage, the Hacker News Network called the challenge "an obvious
ploy to get free publicity. It is hoped that this is not a primary testing
method."
Members of the Linux-enthusiast site Slashdot for the most part concurred,
accusing Microsoft of using anti-Microsoft sentiment for free auditing.
Meanwhile, the Linux community created a counter-challenge of its own.
Tuesday afternoon, LinuxPPC, the developers and distributors of a
PowerPC-native version of Linux, challenged hackers to crack one of its
servers.
Unlike Microsoft, which did not offer any kind of incentive or award to
hackers, LinuxPPC is giving the machine to the first person to break in.
Whoops!
If the Microsoft security challenge was meant as a publicity stunt, it may
have backfired. As soon as the site went online, Microsoft ran into
technical difficulties with the test server. Early visitors reported
problems with the home page's HTML and JavaScript -- some serious enough to
prevent them from accessing the page at all.
Posted status logs indicate that the server had to be rebooted at least
once because the system log was full, and some services were unavailable at
reboot.
Most significantly, the server was offline for most of Tuesday due to what
Microsoft described as "router problems". Though intermittently available
Wednesday morning, the site was down at press time, and appears to have
been pulled from DNS servers entirely. Ping tests indicated the MS router
was functional.
Some Slashdot contributors reported seeing a notice that the site had been
withdrawn, but no such notice is currently posted on any publicly
accessible Microsoft server.
A Microsoft spokesperson attributed some of the difficulties to
thunderstorms in Seattle on Tuesday but had no comment on the site's status
by press time.
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